{"id":13812,"date":"2004-12-02T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-02T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/02\/ken-jennings\/"},"modified":"2004-12-02T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-02T12:28:00","slug":"ken-jennings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/02\/ken-jennings\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Jennings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/speakup\/archives\/002155.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Ken Jennings\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/KenJennings10.gif\" \/><\/a>I&rsquo;m sure a lot of you have at least heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ken_Jennings\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Jennings<\/a>, the 74-time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeopardy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Jeopardy<\/i><\/a> game show champion that won a record $2,520,700.00 and recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/12\/01\/tv.jennings.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">lost in his 75th appearance<\/a>.  I didn&rsquo;t watch the show too often while he was champion, but when I did watch I happened to notice that he wrote his name in a different style each time.  I imagine after being on the show that many times he wanted to do something different; I often wondered whether Alex Trebek got frustrated trying to think of new things to talk about during the contestant interviews in the middle of &ldquo;Single Jeopardy.&rdquo;  Anyway, <i>Speak Up<\/i> has collected a good amount of Jennings&rsquo; different signatures in the page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/speakup\/archives\/002155.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Graphic Stylings of Ken Jennings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-110199051285337883?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m sure a lot of you have at least heard of Ken Jennings, the 74-time Jeopardy game show champion that won a record $2,520,700.00 and recently lost in his 75th appearance. I didn&rsquo;t watch the show too often while he was champion, but when I did watch I happened to notice that he wrote his &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/02\/ken-jennings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ken Jennings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}